etkre
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I'm uploading some pics for John Colter. He recently completed his "Pulga Pouco" ukulele. Check out that headstock!
It's finally finished, and I love it! I strung it up initially, before applying any finish, just in case it needed any modifications. I wasn't totally sure the unusual "vertical peg-head with zero fret and no nut" arrangement would work, but it does - perfectly. The scale length at 320mm is somewhere between sopranino and soprano. I expected it to require higher tuning than a soprano, but gCEA suits it well. It sounds lovely, with plenty of volume and loads of sustain. The neck goes through the body, and so the internal block is integral with the neck. At the bridge, the strings go through the front, and knot on the inside (a la Sven, the Argapa maker). The grain of the mahogany bridge is vertical (perpendicular to the plane of the front). I reasoned that it might be better for transference of vibration to the sound board. The sound board is a nice piece of spruce provided by Tin Guitar man Rob C. (thanks mate!). The body is made of wood salvaged from a pine box which once held six bottles of port wine. The neck is mahogany, and used to be a bed leg. I call the uke a Pulga Pouco, which I believe is Portuguese for little flea. The odd scale length I refer to (rightly or wrongly) as sopranetto.
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